Basics of project management
Create the WBS
Develop the plan for project management
Develop the project charter
Sequence the activities
Develop the schedule
Budgeting
Quality indicators
Plan Resource Managment
Develop the project communication plan
Identify risks and their responses
Plan Procurement Management
Planning Stakeholder Engagement
Is the process of developing a document that authorizes a project
It provides a direct link between the project and objetives
The project charter establishes a partnership between the performing and requesting organizations.
It allows the project manager to have a better understanding of the project purpose, objectives, and
expected benefit
A business case is needed in order to develop properly a project charter
It requires: Expert judgment, data gathering, teand and interpersonal skills, and meetings.
The benefit: creation of a document that defines the basis of all project work and its performance
Is the process of defining, preparing, and coordinating all plan components in order to consolidate them into an integrated project management plan
Inputs require: project charter, outputs from other processes, environmental factors, organizational process assets,
Tools and techniques require: Expert judgment, data gathering, teand and interpersonal skills, and meetings.
Key benefit: it provides the framework for the deliverables
It organizes and defines the total scope of the project
Is the process of subdividing project deliverables and project work into smaller, more manageable components.
Key benefit: defines the logical sequence of work to obtain efficiency
Every activity except the first and last should be connected to at least one predecessor and at least one successor with a logical relationship
Is is the process of identifying and documenting relationships among the project activities
le is the process of analyzing activity sequences, durations, resource requirements, and schedule
constraints to create a schedule model for project execution and monitoring and controllin
Key benefit: it generates a schedule model with planned dates
Is the process of aggregating the estimated costs of individual activities or work packages to
establish an authorized cost baseline
Is performed once
Key benefit: it determines the cost baseline
Key benefit: it provides guidance and direction on how quality will be managed and verified
Quality planning should be performed in parallel with the other planning processes
Is the process of identifying quality requirements and/or standards for the project and deliverables, and documenting how the project will demonstrate compliance
Key Resources: it establishes the approach and level of management effort needed for managing
Resource planning is used to determine and identify an approach to ensure that sufficient resources
Is the process of defining how to estimate, acquire, manage, and use team and physical resources.
Key Benefit: it determines whether to acquire goods and services from outside the project
Defining roles and responsibilities related to procurement should be done early in the Plan Procurement Management
Process of documenting project procurement decisions, specifying the approach and identifying potential sellers.
Key Benefit: it provides an actionable plan
Is developed early in the project life cycle
Is the process of developing approaches to involve project stakeholders based on their
needs, expectations, interests
Key Benefit: documentation of existing individual project risks
considers both individual project risks and sources of overall project risks
Is the process of identifying individual project risks as well as sources of overall project risk, and
documenting their characteristic
Key Benefit: a documented approach to effectively and
efficiently engage stakeholders by presenting relevant information in a timely manner
recognizes the diverse information needs of the project’s
stakeholders is developed early in the project life cycle.
Process of developing an appropriate approach and plan for project
communications activities based on the information needs of each stakeholder or group